How to Use flown in a Sentence

flown

adjective
  • The massive first stage has already been flown, landed, and re-flown.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Abbey was brain dead and flown to Florida a few days later where she was taken off life support.
    Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The two were deemed uninjured and flown to Aniak after the rescue.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2020
  • Conner was brain dead and flown to Florida a few days later where she was taken off life support.
    Raquel Rutledge, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
  • There are some differences between the flown Rise and its official replica, though.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That means Kidman needs over a dozen high-fashion looks flown to the French Riviera that meet the star’s unrivaled red-carpet record.
    vanityfair.com, 19 May 2017
  • But few wanted to hear the stories of some former Dallas car salesman who’d flown slow, primitive airplanes in a war a half century earlier.
    Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 14 Oct. 2017
  • In October, the H2H team was flown to Kenya to meet with government officials to discuss scaling the impact up.
    Jonathan Winslow, Orange County Register, 24 Jan. 2017
  • The contest rules restricted entries to use only fabrics found in NASA’s thermal blanket lab, and the flown zero-g indicator was handmade by NASA members.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2026

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